
Originally Posted by
Sharla

Originally Posted by
Howlin Mad Missy
More than likely he's just saying shit to wind you up.
Bilbo likes to rattle off about creationism vs dinosaurs a lot.
Incest is part of creationism theory - so to him it's probably normal. But most paedo's think they're normal.
Very good point Missy - I had not clicked onto the link between this and his other, more dominant obsession!
I went to a course on Australian Aboriginal culture yesterday and one of their pretty sophisticated laws was the 8 skins law.
Basically you belonged to a 'skin' and could not marry other particular skins - designed so the closest relative you could marry would be a fifth cousin. Designed specifically to avoid incest.
I went home to my religious flatmate and among other impressive things about their traditional laws/culture I recited this 8 skins law.
It suddenly occured to her that she believed in creation and it must've meant that at some stage if what she believed was literally true everyone slept with everyone. She looked pretty horrified. So glad I don't believe in that!
Just a quick comment on the incest creationism story.
It is true that the original sons and daughters of Adam and Eve would have married each other other, hence brother sister marriages, however this was at the very start of creation and brother sister relations were acceptable then.
Only in Moses time in Leviticus were familial relationships outlawed, prior to that period they were commonplace, Abraham himself married his half sister.
The point is familial relationships are wrong today because of two reasons, one the Bible condems them so morally wrong and secondly because our genes today have too many copy errors since the fall so we need to spread the gene pool a bit.
Adam and Eve's children were born into a near perfect world and the copying errors and bad genes wern't an issue then. Only after thousands of years of denigration did that law need to be changed, for the health of mankind.
And anyway, regardless of whether you believe in creationism or not the first people were incestous.
Science has now proven that the entire human race does indeed desend from a single female (they call it the Eve hypotheses), they only differ with the Bible in the Time Line and the location.
That's why I laugh at scoffers who mock the idea of a first man and women, completely ignorant to the fact that even if you believe in evolution you have to accept there was a first human from whom we are all evolved anyhow.
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